Sightings
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to Nottingham Birdwatchers for providing this information.
A sightings log book is available at the reception desk of the visitor centre to record your daily sightings.
April 2008
Monday 28th - Cuckoo [Delta Area]
Sunday 27th - Common Sandpiper [Clifton Pond], Lesser Whitethroat.
Saturday 26th - Barton Lane: Northern Wheatear [female in field by level crossing], 2 Oystercatcher. Clifton Pond: Common Sandpiper, Tree Sparrow.
Friday 25th - Whimbrel [Clifton Pit], Little Gull [Main Pond].
Thursday 24th - 3 Dunlin [left of Kingfisher Hide].
Monday 21st - Red Kite, Little Ringed Plover, Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Tween Pond Scrape:- 2 Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail. Attenborough Bowling Green: 4 Yellow Wagtail.
Sunday 20th - 2 Arctic Tern, 4 Willow Tit.
Saturday 19th - Common Swift [over Visitor Centre], 200+ Sand Martin [Coneries Pond], 50+ Swallow, 20 Common Tern.
Friday 18th - Sand Martin [total on all pits: 1200+], 150+ Swallow total on all pits, 4 House Martin, Common Swift [one flying low near Barton Lane bridge area late afternoon], Yellow Wagtail [feeding on Tween Pond Scrape], Reed Warbler [Delta reed-bed], 5 Willow Warbler [singing], 33 Common Tern [29 together feeding over Coneries Pond and 4 to North earlier over Main Pond], 24 Common Goldeneye [12 each on Church and Clifton Ponds], 4 Northern Shoveler, Common Snipe [one on Delta.
Wednesday 16th - Reed Warbler [singing, Delta reed-bed].
Tuesday 15th - Grasshopper Warbler, Osprey [male seen flying down River Trent towards Nottingham at approximately 11:15.
Monday 14th - Black Redstart, Curlew
Saturday 12th - Barn Swallow, House Martin, 1 Common Tern [Coneries Pond]. Erewash Field: 6 Meadow Pipit, 2 Skylark. Wheatear Field: Common Sandpiper, 4 Eurasian Teal. Clifton Pond: 2 Common Shelduck, 5 Common Goldeneye, 35 Sand Martin. Delta: 2 Blackcap, Chiffchaff.
Thursday 10th - 1 Yellow Wagtail [male], 1 Common Goldeneye, 3+ Brambling [back of the church], Oystercatcher, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, Blackcap. Coneries Pond: 300+ Sand Martin [nearly all gone by late morning]. Clifton Pond: Common Tern. Main Pond: 1 Common Sandpiper.
Tuesday 8th - 6 Willow Warbler, 9 Chiffchaff, 8 Blackcap [all warblers singing at various places around the reserve but mainly in the Delta area], 80+ Sand Martin [Main Pond]. Clifton Pond: 1 Common Pochard, 10 Northern Shoveler, 2 Common Shelduck, 12 Eurasian Teal, 2 Oystercatcher, 1 Eurasian Wigeon [male], 1 Swallow, 1 Goosander [male].
Saturday 5th - c.500 Sand Martin, Oystercatcher.
Friday 4th - 4 Blackcap [singing], 6+ Chiffchaff [singing], 17 Fieldfare, 2 Willow Tit.
Archived Sightings
Jan 2008 Dec 2007 Nov 2007 Oct 2007 Sept 2007 Aug 2007
July 2007 June 2007 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007
Jan 2007 Dec 2006 Oct 2006 Sept 2006 August 2006 July 2006
June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 Feb 2006 Jan 2006
Dec 2005 Nov 2005 Oct 2005 Sept 2005
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